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GET /v2/plays/3630649/?format=api
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{
    "id": 3630649,
    "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3630649/?format=api",
    "airdate": "2026-03-18T14:20:49-07:00",
    "show": 66215,
    "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66215/?format=api",
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    "song": "Today's Lesson",
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    "recording_id": "98e3c6f1-aaf7-4024-a0d7-aa84c8fa8c77",
    "artist": "Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds",
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    "album": "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!",
    "release_id": "e1d73f25-7e6d-35d4-a1ed-0df7348e5a36",
    "release_group_id": "3e63aa06-0538-3680-8d11-800f5950b9b3",
    "labels": [
        "Anti‐"
    ],
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    ],
    "release_date": "2008-04-08",
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    "is_local": false,
    "is_request": false,
    "is_live": false,
    "comment": "Nick Cave in 2008: \"'Today's Lesson' came about because I wanted to write a lyrically chaotic song concerning the received masculine erotic desire on women.\"\n--\nHe said, \"[The song} has a fairytale quality. But it's an evil fairytale. It's an evil song. The male attention in that song has crossed a kind of line and it's evil. It's malign and destructive but the song kind of bops along, you know. There's a fair amount of, sometimes intentional, sometimes unintentional kind of counterpoint that's being used between the music being a certain way and the lyrics being another way.\"",
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}